It is there that the punishment will be served. This opinion was expressed on Thursday, September 28, by Umerov's lawyer Nikolai Polozov.

According to him, this is done specifically, in order to break a person and intimidate others. I do not exclude that he can be sent to Siberia, "Polozov said, adding that the detention of Umerov is dangerous for him in connection with his state of health.

Ilmi is a very sick man. He has Parkinson's disease, diabetes, ischemic illness, he is an invalid of the third group and a verdict that he received more stringent than the death sentence requested by the prosecutor.

Polozov also noted that in Crimea there is only one colony-settlement - in Kerch. However, the lawyer noted that now the only goal of the defenders is to consistently bring the case to the European Court, and then refer the case to an international court in The Hague.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, in the Crimea occupied by Russia on Wednesday, September 27, Simferopol district court "handed down a verdict to the deputy head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Ilmi Umerov.